Art And Craft Time

Peeling out the paper shapes and sorting moment!

Glueing time! Glue all the parts together to form an elephant.

Here's the paper bag puppets that my gal has completed.

I Have Confidence

Given a list below to rate on how he feels for tomorrow Orientation Day.

1) Excited

2) Afraid/Scared

3) Worried

Given 1 - 100 to rate, here's how he rated them: -

100 for Excited, 10 for Afraid/Scared and 5 for Worried.

A: How come you rated 5 for Worried?

W: Because I am brave! (looking at me, answered with confidence)

A: Wow! I am so proud of you! (response with a smiley face)

Yes, there is nothing to worried about, mommy and daddy will be with you at all time.

School Holiday Week

Yes, is school holiday week.

No school bus service and hubby is away for business trip, therefore this week I am extremely busy.

Although they are in a same school, I have to send both of my kids to two different branch till end of this month. Finger cross! Hope everything is fine and manageable.

Here they are, photo taken while they are on their way to school. Good memories and moments been captured.

I am glad they get along well and love company each other. Their love and care for each other always reminded me, helped me to understand that loves and cares should not stop.

Thanks to both of my kids. Thank you for entering my life, making it wonderful and the best of my life!

Warmth Note

My boy wrote a note and left it on my table this morning.



Warms my heart after reading.

Christmas Celebration and Farewell Party

I am celebrating Christmas and farewell party with my classmate today. The dress code for the party is our Primary School Uniform.

So coincidence, I found out one of my classmate and I having same school badge, we are going to a same primary school next year.

This was my last celebration and group photo taking in my preschool. We are moving to P1 soon, and I will miss all my dear friends.

Bangau Oh Bangau

This is interesting, very funny but the song is way too long for me!

Bangau Oh Bangau Lyrics



bangau oh bangau,
mengapa engkau kurus?

macam-mana aku tak kurus,
ikan tak mahu timbul – ikan tak mahu timbul

ikan oh ikan,
kenapa engkau tak mahu timbul?

macam-mana aku nak timbul,
rumput panjang sangat – rumput panjang sangat

rumput oh rumput,
kenapa panjang sangat?

macam-mana aku tak panjang,
kerbau tak makan aku – kerbau tak makan aku

kerbau oh kerbau,
kenapa tak makan rumput?

macam-mana aku nak makan,
perut aku sakit – perut aku sakit

perut oh perut,
kenapa engkau sakit?

macam-mana aku tak sakit,
makan nasi mentah – makan nasi mentah

nasi oh nasi,
mengapa engkau mentah?

macam-mana aku tak mentah,
kayu api basah – kayu api basah

kayu oh kayu,
mengapa engkau basah?

macam-mana aku tak basah,
hujan timpa aku – hujan timpa aku

hujan oh hujan,
mengapa timpa kayu?

macam-mana aku tak timpa,
katak panggil aku – katak panggil aku

katak oh katak,
kenapa panggil hujan?

macam-mana aku tak panggil,
ular nak makan aku – ular nak makan aku

ular oh ular,
kenapa nak makan katak?

macam-mana aku tak makan,
memang makanan aku – memang makanan aku!!!

alamak

ular oh ular,
mengapa tak makan katak?

macam mana aku nak makan,
kau orang dah belit aku

tolong..!

Chan Mali Chan

Chan Mali Chan is my childhood songs. I can't remember when I pickup this songs, only remember my mom sings this song to me.

Now my gal learned this song too. Today she sings to me when she is back from school.

She is not and can't sings the whole lyrics, only the chorus part.

Chan mali chan, hooi hooi
chan mali chan, hooi hooi



Do a search and found this video clip. Very cute!



Chan Mali Chan Lyrics

Di mana dia anak kambing saya?
Anak kambing saya di tepilah bendul.
Di mana dia anak kambing saya?
Anak kambing saya di tepilah bendul.
Chan mali chan, chan mali chan,
Chan mali chan, ketipong payung (2X)

Di mana dia buah hati saya?
Buah hati saya bagai telur dikupas.
Di mana dia buah hati saya?
Buah hati saya bagai telur dikupas.
Chan mali chan, chan mali chan
Chan mali chan ketipong payung (2X)

Letter S Is Missing

Any letters your toddlers cant pronounce?
As for my gal, she can't pronounce the letter "S". She will always drop out the letter "S".

Check this out!

Other words with missing letter S: -

- Sleep

- Square

- Smurf
- Star

- Stick

A Day At Singapore Science Center

Last minutes plan for this holiday, Hari Raya Haji, brought my kids to Singapore Science Center. They are so excited when they arrived, especially my boy when he saw the Waterworks.

We only managed to visit: iSpace, Sound Exhibition, Discovery Zone, Living with Viruses, The Mind's Eye, Mathematics Everywhere & Everyday, Ecolab, and Waterworks.









My girl managed to explore around at Discovery Zone before doze off. Here she is, too exhausted, just doze off after her milk.



Here are some photos taken outside Singapore Science Center before leaving.






Saw this Dinosaurs-Live exhibition, started from 21Oct2011 and end on 26Feb2011.

Couldn't managed to include this in our visit, we will bring them here again, Singapore Science Center, for only this exhibition.

Chocolate Chip Muffins

I have not spent much time in baking recently, busy in preparing my boy for P1. Thought of baking muffin weeks ago, till this morning then I gathered all my ingredients and started my baking.



Ingredients
150g Unsalted Butter
150g Sugar
175g self-raising flour (Sifted)
3 eggs
1 tsp Vanilla essence
60g Mini chocolate chips

Method
1. Preheat the oven to 180°C.
2. Beat the butter with the sugar until white and fluffy.
3. Add in eggs one at a time. Then add is vanilla essence and mix well.
4. Fold in sifted flour into the butter mixture and mix well. Lastly add the mini Chocolate chips and mix through.
5. Fill papercups with batter to two-third full.
6. Bake at 180°C for about 20 mins or until a toothpick inserted in the centre comes out clean with few loose crumbs attached.
7. Allow to cool for few minutes and then transfer to a wire rack.

Makes about 12 muffins.

Delicious chocolate chip muffins either serve warm from the oven or at room temperature

Bedtime Story

My kids refused to go to bed, wanting for daddy to tell them story. I have no choice, to agreed with them.

I have no idea what am I doing, allowing my kids to stay so late. This will not happen anymore, have to be more firm and make sure they are in bed before 8:30pm.

Bedtime story - 2 books from mommy and 1 book from daddy.

Look at them, cute little monsters! They love bedtime story so much.


Book Name: Daddy Napped

They are rather tire after long waiting for daddy to return and to have bedtime story, they doze off just within a minutes, that's pretty fast! That's also maybe is late, has past 10:30pm.

Balanced Relationship

Don't let someone become a priority in your life,

When you are just an option in their life...

Relationships work best they are balanced.

Adopted from pravstalk.

Sweetcorn Soup

Recent words and action

Mmmm... ... Yummy!
or
Mmmm... ... Nice!

Recently my gal will express out by saying "Mmm... ... Yummy!" or "Mmmm... ... Nice!" on her favourite dish or the food taste delicious. At the same time with face expression too!

Here she is while having her dinner.

She is a sweetie pie to me!

Love mommy!

Children's Day

How would you celebrate with your kids on Children's day? Or would you celebrate with your kids?

When I was a kid, my parents don't really celebrate with me, they are busy. Most of the time I celebrated in school with my classmate and teachers. Only things that my mum will prepared every year is a pot of curry chicken.

During children's day, there is a list of program planned by the school, first we will gather in a hall. Started with National song, followed by school song, dances, choirs and so on and so on. Thereafter, we will return back to our class. Can't remember much, things that I can recall are, we will decorate our class with some colour papers, balloons, and the tables will re-arranged for placing food.

This year, I planned to have some quality time with my kids, instead of bringing them out, we stayed at home. Things/activities that we spent together - read books, watched TV, played toys, and cookies decorating.

Dancing my lady!



I baked a batch of cookies a day before, used bumble bee cutter to cut out the shape. Prepared 2 sets of piping filled with colour icing for both.

My boy loved decorating cookies, amount of cookies given to him still not enough, requested more to decorate. I really enjoyed watching him decorating his cookies, he looks so serious! Oh, not to forget, he enjoys tasting the icing too. I think most kids did that, can't resist to taste the icing - SWEET!

Captured all the lovely memories of him while decorating!
There goes the final piece of work, all the way in his mouth before finished decorating. Cheeky you!



My gal loved exploring the icing rather than decorating her cookies. She tasted the icing, feels the texture with her both hands and busy squeezing out the icing. With curiosity, she squeezed and watched the icing flowing out from the piping bags.



I have a great and precious moment. Hope they enjoyed!

Here's the cookies - bumble bees, that I had decorated for them while they having their nap.

Mickey Mouse Hot Cake

Inspiration from my gal yesterday evening when I have no idea what to prepare for breakfast.

A: What do you want for your breakfast?

E: Mickey Mouse

A: =_='

I have no idea when did this Disney cartoon character - Mickey Mouse become one of her favorites character. Luckily I have this character mould.

Using the ready made pancake mix that I bought from NTUC. Is quite easy, there is a step by step instruction given on the box.

Mixed in the ingredient with water, stir well then scoop out the batter and cook using frying pan.

Mickey Mouse hot cake for breakfast!

My kids were so excited when Mickey Mouse hot cake was served. ~ Cheers ~

Funny Look

Wanted to take a photo of my boy after finished his fruits in the morning and he posted funny look for me.

You are silly and cheeky boy!

Photo taken by my iPhone.

Traditional Lotus Paste Mooncake

When comes to mooncake selection, traditional baked mooncake is always out from my list, since young only loved the snow skin type, especially pandan flavour. Hmm.... Yummilicious!

After the mooncake workshop that I have attended last week, really gives me inspiration to give it a try. Next day, went to Phoon Huat, bought all the ingredients.

I am quite free today, gather all my ingredients and started on the mooncake skin portion first then follow by the lotus paste. There are only 2 type of lotus paste that I like most - white lotus paste and pandan lotus paste. Other than that, the others are too sweet for me.

Overall experience, not too bad, at least I am able to mould out with beautiful print on each of every mooncake.

Mooncake Magic Workshop

Rose, Pam and I signed up for the making mooncakes. This is not my 1st time learning on how to make mooncake. 10 years back I attended mooncake workshop together with my hubby, from then till now have not start to baked or make any of them.

Class size was supposed to be 8, due to last minutes time changed, 4 dropped out. We have so much fun, laughter and I really enjoyed, especially with a group of mommies that you know off.

Here the mommies holding their final product - snow skin mooncake.

Snow skin 1st row from left to right - Strawberry flavour, Pandan flavour.

Snow skin 2nd row from left to right - Mixed Pandan & Strawberry flavour, Banana flavour

Managed to mould out 4 mini Traditional lotus paste mooncake. Not the final product yet, still waiting for the oven.

Look Alike

Aren't they just look alike?

Xiao Wan Zi vs SIL vs my gal

Rapping Nursery Rhyme

Cool! My boy rapping nursery rhyme.



Surprise me when I hear him rap. Didn't know he can rap too!


Nursery Rhyme Lyric - One, Two, Three, Four, Five, Once I Caught a Fish Alive!

One, Two, Three, Four, Five,
Once I caught a fish alive,
Six, Seven, Eight, Nine, Ten,
Then I let it go again.

Why did you let it go?
Because it bit my finger so.
Which finger did it bite?
The little finger on my right.

What Would You Like To Be

A: W, what would you like to be or work as when you grow up like daddy?
W: mommy, what job can I earn lots of money?

Oh dear, almost faint when I hear what he asked. =_='
Nowadays, children are so different to those days. We will choose or pick what we like, maybe that's only me. When I were young, I would like to be a piano teacher or related to art craft work, unfortunately my parents disagreed with my decision.

A: W, you have to choose a job that you like, not looking into what earns a lot and you don't like it at all.
W: Hmm... Then I want to build my building.

He pause, look at me for a while and says, I want to order and instruct people to build.
Faint again! Wah! So ambitious thinking.

A: Singapore no more land for you to build, so when you grow up, you have to travel to other country to build your own designed building.
W: Why?
A: Singapore so small and the land is limited, only way is to travel out from Singapore to have your designed building build.
W: Hmmm... ... Let me think about it.

Then he walked away!

At Overtime, Holland V

Happy hour on Friday after work at Overtime, Holland Village!

This is not only our usual drinking, is a farewell for me, I am leaving the company by end of this month. I will miss them very much, not only the days we spent together - at work, go out for lunches, and attend company events.

Wee! So much fun and laughter! The buffet very delicious, I enjoyed most of the dishes been served. Yummy!

We have our silly photo taken individually, laughing so much viewing our funny look been taken.

Group photo taken before we left the place, total 7 of us - Rayson, me, Venetia, Michel, Low, YingWei, and KingBee. Sean has class to attend, so can't join us.

May2011 Random Thoughts

Oh gosh! I have not actively blog for so long. My life has been so busy and occupied with 2 kids, family and work. Sometimes feels like giving up everything, especially at work, makes me extremely tired and exhausted.

Everything seems different when I reached to my kids, their smiles, their laughter, their hugs and their kisses warm my heart. If not because of my family, I may not able to hang on till now, worthwhile to scarified. Love them so much!

Company Lunar New Year Lunch

Today went for company Lunar New Year lunch at The Copperdome Anchorpoint. We do have a good time and enjoyed ourselves, nice chatting with each other. Think this is the only time where all colleagues able to gather around to meet each other.

Here's the list of dishes that my boss ordered.

合家团圆宴(八/十位餐)

Lunar New Year Menu 3

1. 三文鱼生 Salmon “Yu Sheng”

2. 红烧竹笙海味翅 Braised Shark’s Fin Soup with Diced Seafood and Bamboo Fungus

3.芥茉虾球 Deep-fried Prawns with Wasabi-mayo Sauce

4. 家乡蒸石斑 Steamed Garoupa with Shredded Meat and Mushrooms

5. 发菜白灵菇三层楼 Braised Homemade Beancurd and “Bai Ling” Mushrooms with Black Moss

6. 冰镇沙姜鸡 Poached Chicken with Special Minced Ginger and Spring Onions

7. 金菇瑶柱焖伊面 Stewed Ee-fu Noodles with Conpoy and Golden Mushrooms

8. 红豆沙汤丸 Sweetened Red Bean Cream with Glutinous Dumplings

Environment not bad but the food overall average.

Messiest Moment

Messiest moment that I managed to capture. Here they are!

Taken this moment when my boy @22months.

Taken this moment when my girl @20months.

Day Out At Clarke Quay

Having lunch with family at The Central this afternoon. After our lunch, we stroll along Clarke Quay river.

I like the vibrant colour painted on every building. Makes the place so lively and happy.

The night scene looks beautiful when the lights are on, love to hang out with hubby during those days. You can dine-in or chill out or have drinks with your friends, there are more restaurants and nightclubs across the river.

First Day Of Preschool

My girl is in preschool now. This is her 1st day going to her preschool and her 1st time experienced taking school bus to school.

You are so looking forward to experienced everything.

You waved your hand to your gor gor to say bye, then up to the school bus to be sited. I am with you throughout the whole journey, from home to your preschool, from the check-in point to take your temperature to the play area, from waiting area to your class, then back home again.

You are brave and independent girl, without a single tears burst out from you when you are in a new environment. You feed yourself with a little assist. You played well with your same peers. I am so proud of you, you did a great job!